QuantHouse, the independent global provider of high performance systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo development tools and global network infrastructure, today announced the appointments of Emmanuel Carjat as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Denery Fenouil as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Banking Competition Remedies Ltd (BCR), the independent body established to implement the £775 million Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) State Aid Alternative Remedies Package, today highlights the imminent closure of the application window for the Incentivised Switching Scheme (ISS) - this Friday 30 November at 17:00 UK time.

Three quarters (75%) of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) believe digitalisation will have a positive impact for temporary employees within the finance department, according to research¹ from recruitment specialist Robert Half UK.

Signicat, a leader in verified digital identity solutions, today announced it has been selected by Resurs Bank to provide instant mobile signing of credit agreements. Resurs Bank is the leader in retail finance in the Nordic region with more than 1,000 retail partners, serving more than 35,000 stores.

Axioma announced today that Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor, has selected Axioma Risk, the enterprise-wide risk-management solution providing timely, consistent and comparable views of multi-asset class risk across the front, middle and back offices.

Exactpro, an international  firm providing software testing services for mission-critical technology that underpins global financial markets, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Natia Sirbiladze as CEO of its Tbilisi, Georgia branch - Exactpro Systems Georgia.

New research from Yolt, the smart thinking money app and Cebr, has revealed that consumers under the age of 30 consistently spend the least amount of money on luxury items, in absolute terms and when measured as a percentage of their total expenditure. On average, millennials under 30 dedicate just 13% of their weekly expenditure to paying for luxuries, such as holidays, restaurant meals and alcoholic drinks.

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced a new service that administers FIX connectivity for asset managers.  The new offering enhances the managed service version of thinkFolio, the order management (OMS) and portfolio modeling (PMS) solution from IHS Markit.    

Lost Generation

Over the past decade, as the accountancy recruitment crunch has deepened, firms have experimented with any number of strategies in a bid to both attract and retain the latest generation of graduates. Yet, from the introduction of flexible working hours to offices with beanbags and sleeping pods a la Silicon Valley, these strategies are not working for one essential reason: millennials find the job dull because they are focused on labour-intensive activities versus creative and challenging tasks.